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THC 13.3%, CBD 0; $8/g from Tilray This was the third strain I've tried so far. It was very different from Rene Mist and Jack Herer, and I much preferred it. The negatives aren't as bad, and the high is much more enjoyable for me. It took awhile to actually get my order. I had to wait 'til after the weekend for it to be shipped, then the carrier messed up and delayed it another day. The packaging was a bit excessive, and came with another free grinding mat. Despite the extra packaging, when I opened the bag, I found all the buds squished together into a single big blob. A couple stems were maybe a bit longer than need-be, and there were a few tiny pieces of leaves floating around. The buds feel dry in my hands when I'm breaking them up, but are actually quite sticky, given the way they gum up my grinder and vaporizer. The smoke when I vape this is a sickly sweetness I am not fond of. The only other thing I don't like about Barbara Bud is its potency, which is quite low. I have to take a fair bit at a time to get the most pain relief, and that makes it hard to stretch my 0.5g through the whole day. With Rene Mist and Jack Herer, I couldn't manage 0.5g a day because they were too potent. The high from this indica is pretty pleasant. Still dry eyes, dry mouth, and dizziness, but none as badly as with the JH and RM. Instead of making me jittery, BB relaxes me and makes me feel really mellow. It doesn't help with my nausea, but at least it doesn't make it worse, like the sativa high did. I still get tingly, and feel uplifted. I don't feel sleepy or glued to the couch, but maybe a bit sluggish. Also, most of my senses are dulled. I get maybe 15% direct pain relief at the amounts I'm taking. However, I am also better able to handle my pain, because of the mellow, uplifted state generated. The effect on my focus is quite interesting. I can focus in on something until I'm almost absorbed by it. Since I usually have trouble focusing on things, I was happy to discover this effect. However, it makes multi-tasking nearly impossible. If I'm having a conversation with someone, for example, I can't do anything else at the same time, or I might zoom in on that and lose track of what's being said. A nice complement to the focus is a boost in creativity, or at least motivation to do something creative. Between the pain relief, the focus, and the creativity, I can happily spend most of the day working on some project, so long as I keep the high going. While this is the best pain relief I've had yet from weed, it still isn't as significant relief as morphine or percocet. However, those put me straight to sleep, and have long-term effects I don't care for, so I prefer the Barbara Bud.

$9/g from Tilray I'm pretty new to marijuana. This is only my 2nd strain, so I'm not terribly discerning yet. I don't know anything about evaluating the quality of the bud, at all. But, I can say what my experience with JH has been. I found this strain to be pretty similar to Rene Mist, only more potent in some aspects, so I took lower doses. The smoke when I vapourize this is thicker, and harder on my throat. The flavour is a bitter, earthy tone that makes it hard for me to tell when it starts burning. At the levels I can tolerate, this strain relieves my pain roughly 10%. It does not help my nausea, and can even make that significantly worse, if I take too much. It does make me a bit giddy, talkative, and peckish. I get tingly, too, as if my blood were fizzing, and this can make me jittery. Unfortunately, it also makes me dizzy (which hinders my ability to focus, and can be bad enough to keep me from moving my head), painfully dries out my eyes, and makes my mouth cottony (far more than the Rene Mist, so it's not just the hot air from vaping), which really takes away a lot of the flavour from food. Even my nose feels dried up.

$8/g from Tilray My very first strain. Needed to have someone show me how to grind the weed and use the vapourizer. He said the stickiness of the buds was good, for whatever that's worth. The smoke from this strain has a light flavour, a mix of earthy and flowery that is not unpleasant. It's not too hard on my throat, though I do get a bit of a tickle from time to time. I have also tried infusing cream with the previously vaped stuff. The effects didn't really change for me when I ate it; they just had a slower onset and longer duration. At the levels I can tolerate, this strain relieves my pain roughly 10%. It does not help my nausea, and can even make that worse, if I take too much. At low levels, it makes me feel a bit jittery, happy, and talkative. With larger doses, I additionally get tingly, hungry, and dizzy. Too much, and I get intensely dizzy and very nauseated. My mouth and eyes get a bit dry from this, as well - the more I have, the drier they feel. Because of the jitteriness, I doubt this would be a good strain for people seeking stress relief, but that's pure speculation.